Improvement in boxes for seidlitz-powders



NITED STATES PATENT CHARLES A. BROWNE AND ISAAC S. BR'OWNE, OF NORTH ADAMS,MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOXES FOR SElDLITZ-POWDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,558, dated January 9, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Packing-Box for Seidlitz and other Powders invented by OHARLEs A. BRowNE and IsAAo S. BROWNE, of North Adams, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts.

The object of this invention is to provide a box for seidlitz-powders and other efiervescing powders composed of different ingredients, wherein the acid and the soda or other ingredients may be kept separate and each in its proper quantity; and it consists in a box made of wood or other material-with compartnients, each of which is of a suitable size or capacity to contain the exact proportion or quantity of the ingredients required, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a box constructed according to our invention! Fig. 2 is a crosssection of Fig. 1 on the line 00 00.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In this example of our invention a box is shown designed for seidlitz-powders.

A is the box. 13 is the compartment forthe salts and soda, andC the compartment for the acid, each compartment containing the proper quantity of the different ingredients as such powders are generally used. It will be seen that the chamber C of the box forms a cover for the chamber B. D is the cover for the upper chamber or compartment C. The box is made so that the parts close tightly together, either as shown in the drawing or in any other manner, to secure the contents from deliquescence.

The advantages are that each compartment when filled contains the proper quantity, and much time is therefore saved in packing. The contents are more readily discharged and less likely to be spilled or wasted in using. The powders may, in the packages, be much more conveniently carried and handled,and are much more perfectly protected than they are at pres ent.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an article of manufacture, a packing-box for eii'ervescing powders, composed of chambers or compartments of suitable relative size, as herein shown and described.

CHAS. A. BROWNE.

Witnesses: ISAAC S. BROWNE.

WM. P. PORTER, N. C. Pnr'rrs. 

